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I grew up in Davenport, Iowa, but I moved to Santa Clarita, California, when I was 6.

Julia Michaels

It never feels like work. I get to go to the studio and be with my friends every day and write new things and experiment with new sounds. We just have a blast.
JULIA MICHAELS

Feeling Friendship Myself Sound Work
Working with new people can be really hard and nerve-wracking. When you don’t know the person, it’s like being on a blind date.
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Date People Work Yourself
I’ve written poetry most of my life.
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Life Myself Poetry Writing
My sister was the singer, and I always had the mentality there could only be one in the family.
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Family Mental Oneself Sing Sister Thinking
Tired of people telling me how I should have a fucking body. What I should wear on it. How I should act with it. What I should fucking shave off of it.
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Act Body Clothes Myself People Talk Tired
It’s ingrained in people’s minds that it’s a typecast and a stereotype that women are just emotional and crazy.
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Crazy Emotion Mindset People Woman
I’m very emotional and vulnerable.
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Emotional Myself Vulnerable
For the first three years, when I was writing, I was doing sessions with a whole bunch of different people all the time every day until I met Lindy Robbins, who kind of mentored me. And then, once you find that, all the pieces come together.
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Different Myself Person Pieces Time Togetherness Writing
Hula-hooping. It makes me feel free. My stepsister introduced me to it. I used to have panic attacks all the time, and she hula-hooped to cope with her own anxiety.
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Feeling Freedom Herself Introduction Time
I’m a very stimulated person.
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Character One Liner Person
I had all these singles come out within a two-month period, and then nothing for almost two years. You start to feel a little irrelevant. You realize how many people there are trying to be songwriters and how competitive it is and how political things can be.
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Competition Music People Politics Song Start Try Yourself
When you start to have success, people look at you differently and expect more from you. With that comes a lot of pressure to perform, so it can be a little overwhelming.
JULIA MICHAELS

Different People Performance Start Success Yourself
There is so much power in vulnerability, and I am proud to be that typecast.
JULIA MICHAELS

Myeself Power Proud Vulnerability
I do love all types of music. I could be in a session for eight hours, and when I leave, I’ll instinctively go to the radio or put on my favourite songs.
JULIA MICHAELS

Leaving Love Music Myself
If I get writer’s block – this is going to sound funny – I take a shower. Something about the water feels like I’m cleaning my brain as well as my body.
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Clean Feeling Funny Myself Sound Water Writing
My boyfriend and I like to fight a lot. I have a lot of problems. He has a lot of problems. Somehow, we always work them out and find a way back to each other.
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Fight Myself Path Problem Relationship Work Yourself

I grew up in Davenport, Iowa, but I moved to Santa Clarita, California, when I was 6.

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